The strategy hinges on T-Mobile's proposed acquisition of Sprint, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier. Following the $26 billion tie-up, the combined company intends to target 10 million consumers nationwide with an $80-a-month service, which will be accessible to two-thirds of the country by 2021, said Legere at a Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing.

Legere also vowed that the new T-Mobile will honor the bargain prices that Sprint currently charges...

It's not just Google and Facebook that are spying on you.
Your TV, your cellphone provider and even your LinkedIn account have side hustles in your data. But in many cases, you can opt out - if you know where to look.
I dug into a bunch of popular...

Comcast will likely bid for Fox's entertainment business as early as Wednesday now that a federal judge has cleared AT&T's $85 billion takeover of Time Warner.
If Comcast succeeds in outbidding Disney for Fox, a major cable distributor would control even...

Triton College trustees recently approved a lease that could bring more than $32 million to the school over 30 years.
The college is leasing part of its microwave frequencies to Sprint, which will use the frequencies to support its cellphone and internet...

Economists call it “perfect competition” and it’s basically the opposite of a monopoly. It’s when a market has a sufficient number of players to ensure the highest level of efficiency for both buyers and sellers.
It’s a principle that’s once again...

To gain approval for their $26.5 billion merger agreement, T-Mobile and Sprint aim to convince antitrust regulators that there is plenty of competition for wireless service beyond Verizon and AT&T.
The deal announced Sunday would combine the nation's...

Sprint and T-Mobile are officially seeking to merge. If the deal is approved, the resulting company would be the nation's second-biggest wireless carrier after Verizon, controlling roughly 100 million customers. While the merger could put the companies in...

Parents and students outside Hinsdale Central High School who use Sprint as their cellphone carrier may find it easier to make and keep calls in the near future.
Sprint plans to add an antenna to a ComEd utility pole on Grant Street near the school's...

In the Ad Bowl accompanying Super Bowl LII, there were some surprises this year: A car company decided it was okay to use a Martin Luther King Jr. speech to sell its trucks. Budweiser left the Clydesdales out for the first time in almost two decades,...

Sprint Corp. is signaling tough times lie ahead.
The telecommunications company hired industry veteran Michel Combes, known as a cost-cutter, as president and chief financial officer to help revive the telecommunications company still reeling from the...

Wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile called off a potential merger, saying the companies couldn't come to an agreement that would benefit customers and shareholders.
The two companies have been dancing around a possible merger for years, and were...

The push to merge wireless rivals Sprint and T-Mobile is taking longer than expected and likely will delay news until mid-or late November, according to a published report.
Bloomberg, in an online post Thursday, said the companies had hoped to announce...

T-Mobile and Sprint appear to be edging ever closer to a merger, with a new report from CNBC suggesting the two companies could announce a deal in late October or early November.
Combining America's third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers would leave...

A widely anticipated merger between Sprint and T-Mobile US could cost the nation more jobs than exist at Sprint, according to one analyst.
Together, the companies reported employing 78,000 in their most recent disclosures. Sprint, based in suburban...

Sprint and T-Mobile are again reportedly close to agreeing to tentative terms for a merger.
Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday that SoftBank Group Corp, which controls Sprint, would own 40 percent to 50 percent of the combined new...

Sprint’s Tokyo-based parent company is willing to sell the Kansas-based wireless company, but it also may be up for buying T-Mobile or deal with other companies, its chief executive said Wednesday.
The comments came from Masayoshi Son, chairman of Sprint...

The nation's fourth-largest cellphone carrier is buying up a third of Jay-Z's online music platform, Tidal.
Sprint's announcement Monday promises customers "exclusive content" from Tidal that they won't be able to get on other wireless carriers, but it...

President-elect Donald Trump sought credit for Sprint's commitment to create or bring back 5,000 jobs that the carrier says are part of broader U.S. hiring plans previously announced by Japan-based parent SoftBank Group Corp.
Trump said SoftBank Chairman...

As a three-sport athlete and participant in multiple student activities, the last thing East Leyden High School sophomore Adriana Olvera, wants to do when she returns at night is fuss with her home's spotty internet service.
"At night when I come home...